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AlphaOutlaw retweeted
KOSA does not “help parents keep their kids safe.”
It’s a federal digital ID and surveillance infrastructure disguised as “child safety.”
Really disheartening to see Florida republicans using government surveillance as their election talking points - I guess at least they don’t hide it. 😏
AlphaOutlaw retweeted
The sickening stories keeping coming in…😢😢😢
SHAME ON YOU, @StubHub.
Imagine being a kid, a HUGE @Brewers fan, and finding out you’re going to see your team play in the WORLD SERIES! ⚾️💙💛
The excitement. The anticipation. The memories you’re already imagining making.
Now imagine having that excitement ripped away because a company sold your 3 tickets that you bought, that they apparently can’t deliver.
That’s exactly what we’re dealing with right now.
We purchased THREE tickets to the Milwaukee Brewers World Series for Game 1 last Tuesday(13th) through StubHub. We selected our section, our row, paid for our tickets, and received our order confirmation.
Everything was supposed to be set.
Then suddenly, StubHub tells us they’re “searching for replacement options” because they can’t provide the tickets we purchased.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!
How does a company accept someone’s hard earned money, confirm a purchase, and then turn around and say they can’t fulfill it?!
And their solution? We can request a refund while they continue looking for tickets.
THIS ISN’T ABOUT THE MONEY.
It’s about the experience. It’s about the memories. It’s about the excitement of a kid, his dad, and grandpa, who thought they were going to watch their favorite baseball team play on the biggest stage in baseball.
Look at the first picture. That’s the disappointment you’re creating, StubHub.
A refund doesn’t replace that moment.
And here’s what really bothers me…
StubHub advertises a “FanProtect Guarantee” and tells customers their orders are “100% guaranteed.”
Guaranteed WHAT, exactly?!
Because from where we’re sitting, that guarantee doesn’t feel worth much when you can’t deliver the tickets you sold us.
We did everything right. We purchased through a major ticket marketplace. We trusted the confirmation. We trusted the guarantee.
Now it’s time for StubHub to make it right.
We aren’t asking for anything extra. We want the three tickets we paid for, or comparable or better seats together, at no additional cost.
Stubhub…DO BETTER.
Please SHARE this. Not just for us, but for every fan who has trusted a ticket company with an experience that means so much more than the price of admission.
ℹ️Brandon Barker
AlphaOutlaw retweeted
Urgent Notice:
Important update: Today at approximately 1:30 PM Eastern time the main accounts for the No Kings coalition (@nokingscoalition) on Instagram were frozen and pulled down. The admins have lost access to the account. We are unable to login. This happened at the peak of our national day of action.
We need amplification to drive attention towards this attempt to impact our free speech and our ability to communicate with the general public. Please help!!!
AlphaOutlaw retweeted
It's such a bad practise that TOs and judges of competitions hold so much power over the players that often you find situations like these where players can't even speak their mind and critique things without getting banned.
Please revoke iCaterpie's ban, this is appalling.
AlphaOutlaw retweeted
BREAKING: Israeli spyware is confirmed on our phones. This should be headline news but none of our mainstream media is covering it, of course. So we will.
An Israeli ad company called Discover-Tech used ordinary online ads to plant spyware on people’s devices, and nobody had to click anything. The ad just had to load on a website or inside an app for you to be infected.
Citizen Lab and the ad security firm Confiant published the findings yesterday. Researchers went through roughly 4 billion ad-bidding records and found Discover-Tech ads running on more than 120,000 websites and 70,000 apps between March and June of this year. Confiant says the company was serving at least 10 million ads a day.
The platform was called Controlium. According to Citizen Lab, it let spyware companies use ad auctions to profile and unmask users, then send an infected ad to the one person they wanted to hack. The ads were also pulling cookies and login tokens from the sites they ran on. Israeli corporate records list Dekel Boni as the company’s founding director and sole shareholder.
The main spyware customer was Candiru, the Israeli firm the U.S. government blacklisted in 2021, which now goes by Integrity Labs. Five years after that blacklisting, it was still reaching devices through ad inventory on Google, Comcast-owned Beeswax and Russia’s Yandex. Google had Discover-Tech on its approved vendor list from 2020 until this week.
At least 45 Al Jazeera devices were targeted in 2024 and 2025. Candiru’s 2021 shareholder filings reportedly listed a minority investor described as a proxy for Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, and Qatar also funds Al Jazeera. If that holds up, Qatari state money was sitting inside the company whose spyware was later aimed at Qatar’s own news network.
The heaviest targeting was in the Palestinian territories, where Discover-Tech served almost 2% of all digital ads and about 10% on April 7. Traffic also reached the Armenian prime minister’s office, courts, universities and defense organizations.
Google and the other ad platforms cut Discover-Tech off after the report came out. What nobody has answered yet is who paid for the ad buys, and how a company working with a U.S.-blacklisted spyware vendor passed vendor review for six years.
I am going to look into this today to see if we can figure out who was buying the ads. Interesting timing considering my article yesterday....
Here's what to do to protect yourself:
(1) Use an ad blocker. Citizen Lab calls ad-blocking a cybersecurity best practice and says there is no consistently safe way to be exposed to targeted ads. On iPhone, add a Safari content blocker. On Android, use Brave or Firefox with uBlock Origin. Ad blockers only work in your browser, not inside apps, so it also helps to delete free ad-supported apps you don’t need.
Kill your advertising ID.
(2) iPhone: Settings > Privacy & Security > Tracking, and turn off “Allow Apps to Request to Track.” Then Settings > Privacy & Security > Apple Advertising, and turn Personalized Ads off.
(2) Android 12 or later: Settings > Privacy > Ads > Delete Advertising ID. Then in Settings > Google > All Services > Privacy & security > Ads > Ads privacy, turn off Ad topics and Ad measurement.
(3) Windows 11: Settings > Privacy & Security > General, and turn off personalized ads using your advertising ID.
(4) Update your phone and restart it often. Many zero-click exploits don’t survive a reboot, so a daily restart forces attackers to reinfect you.
Stay tuned!
AlphaOutlaw retweeted
New Yorkers: Do you have a form of immigration relief called withholding of removal? Have you received an ICE letter summoning you to 26 Federal Plaza? Here’s what you can do:
1. Call our Immigration Legal Support Hotline at 1-800-354-0365, or call 311 and say "Immigration Legal" for free, confidential help in your native language.
2. Fill out our intake form to get help from the Rapid Response Legal Collaborative: nyc.gov/RRLC
3. Make a plan. Make sure you have an emergency contact and that someone you trust has your A-number. Talk to a lawyer before making any decisions.
Immigrants with protected status who’ve lived in the city for decades are finding themselves swept up, shackled and threatened with expulsion.
buff.ly/SIsVKWG
AlphaOutlaw retweeted
get them free here → getartcraft.com/apps
give the creator @get_artcraft a follow if you haven’t already :)
AlphaOutlaw retweeted
HOLY F*CK, THIS GUY LITERALLY REIMPLEMENTED ALL ADOBE PRODUCTS FROM SCRATCH, FREE AND OPEN SOURCE 🤯
> Photoshop → PhotoCraft
> Illustrator → VectorCraft
> Premiere Pro → FilmCraft
> Lightroom → LightCraft
> Acrobat → PdfCraft
> After Effects → EffectCraft
> InDesign → DesignCraft
Free. Open source. Built in Rust.
link in 🧵 ↓
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AlphaOutlaw retweeted
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.
This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.
Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.
Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.
Abolish ICE.
AlphaOutlaw retweeted
Jane Doe and her family were just swatted.
Someone trying to hurt her and her loved ones reported a fake active shooting in her home, triggering a heavy SWAT response.
She and her family could have been killed!
And they wonder why women don't speak up.
This picture needs to be shared again.
And again.
And again.
AlphaOutlaw retweeted
My dad asked me last month why I’m still renting at 41.
I told him the cheapest decent house around here is about $430,000.
He said, “Then start saving.”
I told him 20% down would be $86,000.
He said, “You don’t need that much. Just put some aside every month.”
So I did the math for him.
After rent, daycare, groceries, insurance and everything else, I’m lucky if I can save $500 a month.
He grabbed a calculator.
$86,000 ÷ $500 = 172 months.
Over 14 years.
He just stared at the screen.
Then he said:
“I put $4,000 down on my first house. Took me less than a year to save it.”
Then he went quiet.
“I honestly thought you were all just spending too much.”
That was the moment it clicked.
He wasn’t trying to be insensitive.
He genuinely didn’t understand how different the numbers are now.
Sometimes people aren’t defending the system.
They just never stopped to look at the math.
AlphaOutlaw retweeted
the amazon forest is called the lungs of the earth for a reason, if they destroy it it's fucking over
they don't care about the damage they'll do, they are untouched in their mansions until they die and then it's not their problem anymore. they don't care if there is nothing left
AlphaOutlaw retweeted
jesus fucking christ why isn't this a national story? they can cover twitch streamers for months but a congressional candidate getting raped in a politically charged assault barely cracks the local headlines??
Democrat congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was hit over the head and raped in Maricopa County while repairing a damaged campaign sign in August.
"I need to let women know that it's okay to talk about it," she told me.
Full story:
phoenixnewtimes.com/news/con…
AlphaOutlaw retweeted
MY COUNTRY IS IN GREAT DANGER OF BEING THROWN INTO A DICTATORSHIP ONCE AGAIN BY THE USA. IF YOU THINK IT WON'T AFFECT YOU, THINK AGAIN. TRUMP HAS HIS EYES ON THE AMAZON FOREST AND HUMANITY WILL SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES OF B*LS*NARO JR AND TR*MP
